{"title":"Hysteroscopic surgery: possibilities, limitations and future","authors":"S. Blok, K. Wamsteker","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133914328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cytokines and embryo/endometrial interactions","authors":"A. Sharkey","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001095","url":null,"abstract":"Experimental animal models have shown that the in vitro embryo culture involved in many treatments for infertility results in a dramatic reduction in embryo viability. Recent advances in methodology such as RT-PCR for localization and quantitation of cytokines and their receptors, are revealing the role that this group of growth factors plays in the basic physiology of embryo development and the process of implantation itself. These studies offer the likelihood of dramatically improving in vitro embryo culture in humans and other species by supplementation of culture medium with growth factors or antagonists to improve embryo viability and hence implantation rates.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121913198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of oral contraceptives in women over age 35 years","authors":"R. Casper, S. Şenoz, A. Ben-chetrit","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130773551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrins in the endometrium","authors":"B. Lessey, A. Castelbaum","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128285927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Therapeutic insemination by donor I: A review of its efficacy","authors":"J. Critser, J. Linden","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001022","url":null,"abstract":"Of all the assisted reproductive technologies in current use, artificial insemination has by far the longest history. While the earliest verifiable reports using this technique date to the eighteenth century for nonhuman artificial insemination and to the nineteenth century for human artificial insemination, systematic use of this approach to assist reproduction did not occur until the early part of this century. During the early 1900s, in Russia, Ivanov developed methods for semen collection from and insemination of horses. These techniques were later modified to apply to other agriculturally important species so that by the 1930s, millions of horses, cattle and sheep were being bred using artificial insemination. The adaptation of widespread use of artificial insemination (primarily in cattle) in agriculture extended to Britain in the early 1940s and to the USA in the 1950s. Corresponding implementation of artificial insemination in human reproductive medicine closely followed these innovations in the animal husbandry field.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128684501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Therapeutic insemination by donor II: A review of its known risks","authors":"J. Linden, J. Critser","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001034","url":null,"abstract":"In an effort to summarize the potential risks of therapeutic insemination by donor (TID), including a review of cases of disease attributed to donor semen, a MEDLINE literature search was conducted to identify all published case reports of transmissible diseases occurring in donor semen recipients published in English between 1975 and 1992. The reference list for each article was reviewed to locate additional published case reports. Pertinent case reports were compiled according to disease agent and classified into viral, bacterial and other categories.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115109712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational hazards to male fecundity","authors":"J. Bonde, A. Giwercman","doi":"10.1017/S096227990000106X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S096227990000106X","url":null,"abstract":"Research methods and knowledge in the field of male reproductive toxicology have gradually improved since reports in the late 1970s on severe impairment of spermatogenesis in workers with occupational exposure to certain chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides (the nematocide 1,2-dibromochloropropan and the insecticide and fungicide chlordecone, but still we have only vague answers to basic questions about the overall significance of the environmental and occupational impact of these compounds on male reproductive capability.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121907464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oviductal cells and early conception","authors":"A. Bongso","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133898130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The genetic basis of male infertility","authors":"A. Chandley","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900001010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900001010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129112998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The diagnostic significance of the induced acrosome reaction","authors":"C. Jonge","doi":"10.1017/S0962279900000855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962279900000855","url":null,"abstract":"In trying to discern potential causes of male infertility, little investigation has been done to determine if there is predictive value in assessing acrosome reaction inducibility of human spermatozoa for clinical interpretation and application. The purpose of this review is to outline what is currently known in terms of the diagnostic significance of the induced acrosome reaction and to discuss what might be anticipated for the future. In constructing this review, every effort has been made to provide a comprehensive literature review for the reader and a number of review articles have been cited to serve as sources for additional related material. Regarding the aforementioned, it is essential to qualify that, with the exception of the Section entitled: ‘General characteristics of capacitation and the acrosome reaction’, only characteristics, properties and areas relevant to human spermatozoa will be addressed. Thus, in total, this review will: (1) provide a general description of capacitation and the acrosome reaction; (2) briefly characterize the acrosome and its properties; (3) address the signalling mechanism(s) by which the acrosome reaction occurs; (4) outline various methods for detecting the acrosome reaction; (5) define in vitro culture conditions that facilitate the acrosome reaction; (6) define agents, i.e., biological and chemical, that induce the reaction; (7) discuss the association of the acrosome reaction with fertilization; (8) discuss the clinical implications of the induced acrosome reaction; (9) discuss the relevance of sperm function assays in general; and lastly, (10) discuss future application of acrosome reaction assessment for the clinical diagnosis of male infertility.","PeriodicalId":329551,"journal":{"name":"Reproductive Medicine Review","volume":"875 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134108100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}